Lizzo - Juice

A: Lizzo
S: Juice

Four days into the new year, Lizzo released the first great song of 2019. The Minneapolis singer-rapper-flautist specializes in propulsive self-empowerment anthems - feel-good songs about feeling good - and Juice may be her finest yet, a near-perfect retro-funk nugget that would have felt just right on a mirror-balled dance floor in 1982. Funk below.

...  I'm not a snack at all, I'm the whole damn meal.

ROSALÍA - DE AQUÍ NO SALES

A: ROSALÍA
S: DE AQUÍ NO SALES

Rosalía shared an epic visual for De Aquí No Sales, showcasing the Catalan songwriter's signature swagger. Following an epic run of videos from El Mal Querer in 2018, Rosalía has revealed the fifth of the album’s 11 tracks to receive a visual treatment. In every scene, as always, Rosalía comes across singularly unfuckwitable.

... de lo que a ti te está doliendo.

DRAM - Cash Machine

A: DRAM
S: Cash Machine

D.R.A.M. dedicated his 2016 track to his money counter. This followed his viral sensation Broccoli and his single Cute. Like Broccoli, Cash Machine was well-received, garnering the top spot on Stereogum’s 5 Best Songs of the Week for the week it was released. It also samples a classic Ray Charles song, Hallelujah I love Her So for the piano loop heard at the start of the song.

... how I feel 'bout you is lukewarm.

Poolside - Everything Goes

A: Poolside
S: Everything Goes

If you've seen Poolside DJ the last few years you've probably heard Everything Goes, probably depending on how much time you've spent doing your stuff on the cubicles or the actual dance floor because they play the track it every set. Repetitive, but still. Poolside now worked with a cellist on Everything Goes and had fun trying something different. Enjoy below.

... walk away 'cause we're not afraid.

Ryan Adams - Fuck The Rain

A: Ryan Adams
S: Fuck The Rain

After announcing he’d be releasing three (count ‘em!) albums in 2019, Ryan Adams has now shared a track from the first of that trio of records. The weather-toting Fuck The Rain is taken from Big Colors, which is set for release April 1. Ryan says: “Check out this song it’s cool. Or don’t- we all might die trump is president. I love you, sincerely Ryan Adams.”

... can I live long enough to be alive.

Foals - Exits

A: Foals
S: Exits

Foals have discussed the meaning of their bold new single Exits, along with the making of the surreal video starring Game Of Thrones’ Isaac Hempstead Wright. “Exits’ is basically about trying to paint a visual picture with words about the state of where we’re at, and all the preoccupations that we have,” frontman Yannis Philippakis said. “The environment being one, also the state of surveillance and all of the ways that we attached to the outside world. There isn’t any privacy."

... now the sea eats the sky.

Dendemann - Menschine

A: Dendemann
S: Menschine

Na dendlich: DENDEMANN meldet sich nach 8 Jahren Pause mit Da Nich Für! zurück. Was vor allem auch in Böhmermanns Neo Magazin Royale, wo Dendemann als musikalischer Sidekick auftrat, zum Running Gag geriet - „Wann kommt dein Album raus?“ - ist nun also dendlich Wirklichkeit geworden.
... alle lebendig begraben, egal, Handy geladen.

Hubert Lenoir - Recommencer

A: Hubert Lenoir
S: Recommencer

It's officially Thursday so let's French things up with Hubert Lenoir's track Recommencer of his 2018 album Darlène and the fact that there are never as much information about French artists, tracks or records as we wish for. But since songs like these can speak for themselves, I won't hold that against anybody.

... t'as pas le droit de recommencer, sans moi.

Sharon Van Etten - Seventeen

A: Sharon Van Etten
S: Seventeen

Van Etten’s Remind Me Tomorrow came out on Friday and was already shaping up as a major moment in the singer-songwriter’s career beforehand, boosting the emotional clarity of her past work with a new pop power. Take Seventeen, a total synth-buzzed stunner. Like previous single Comeback Kid, it sounds like a song about memories and past selves. I used to be free/I used to be 17, she sings.

... now you're just like me.

L'Impératrice - Agitations Tropicales

A: L'Impératrice
S: Agitations Tropicales

Straight outta Paris I can tell you to look out for L'Impératrice's debut album Matahari which is now out (in France at least) but not on any streaming service (I think). So take your hard earned cash and buy a hard record or cassette and buy some real music like we used to. This one especially will be worth every dime, penny, or cent.

... elle seule domine l’assemblée, docile, chemine.

Posse - Horse Blanket

A: Posse
S: Horse Blanket

The Seattle indie rock band’s final record was a great parting gift, one with generous portions of wit, melancholy, and even one long guitar solo, proving the band had grasped onto that all elusive effortless cool factor many people spend their whole lives chasing. Unleash the title track below.

... all the garbage floating through your mind.

Malihini - Delusional Boy

A: Malihini
S: Delusional Boy

Lo-fi pop duo Malihini, aka Rome-based couple Giampaolo Speziale and Federica Caiozzo, have unveiled their new track Delusional Boy. Taken from their forthcoming debut album Hopefully, Again the single is the follow up to the title track. Malihini means newcomers in Hawaiian, just in case you were wondering, wonder no more.

... our teeth are all gold.

Angelo De Augustine - Tomb

A: Angelo De Augustine
S: Tomb

Angelo De Augustine newest album, Tomb - his first recorded in a studio and produced by Thomas Bartlett, was released yesterday. The credits include work on albums for St. Vincent, Sufjan Stevens, Glen Hansard, and Rhye which sounds like all your indie dreams come true on the same day - or night, whatever turns you on more.

... I walked into your life at the wrong time.

Jungle - Casio

A: Jungle
S: Casio

UK funk collective Jungle nurse heartbreak with a funky, late-night club sway on their song Casio, which appears on 2018’s For Ever. The music video opens in a dimly-lit club where patrons throw back cocktails. As the beat kicks in, a couple male patrons watch someone stroll by. Watch below.

... don't think that my love is gone.

Jeremy Warmsley - Moment

A: Jeremy Warmsley
S: Moment

Take a moment to indulge in this Moment by Jeremy Warmley, who we know as one half of Summer Camp, but he’s also released a smattering of solo material over the years. Now he’s back with his first new solo track in a decade, the sprawling Moment, written for the new BBC drama Wanderlust, starring Toni Colette, Zawe Ashton and Steven Mackintosh. Find it on Netflix.

... adieu my blood.

The Killers - Land Of The Free

A: The Killers
S: Land Of The Free

The Killers offer up a blistering critique of America before and under President Twittler. Brandon Flowers sings about institutional racism, immigration, incarceration, gun violence and of course Trump’s proposed U.S.-Mexico border wall. Filmed by Spike Lee, this is the song not just said land of the free, but the world, needs right now.

... we got a problem with guns.

Ms. Dynamite - Dy-Na-Mi-Tee

A: Ms. Dynamite
S: Dy-Na-Mi-Tee

Throwback Tuesday y'all. This banger was released 17 years ago and if that doesn't make you feel old, you haven't lived.

... I stay blowin' up ur stereo.

Lana Del Rey - hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have - but i have it

A: Lana Del Rey
S: hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have - but i have it

Lana Del Yay rang in the new year by announcing that her first book of poetry was completed and a new single with an exceptionally poetic title, hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have – but i have it, was on the way and released last week. The song is set to be included on del Rey’s forthcoming album, which she says will be entitled Norman Fucking Rockwell. 

... I can say I'm not sad.

Julia Holter - Words I Heard

A: Julia Holter
S: Words I Heard

Late last year, Julia Holter released a new album called Aviary. And you can check out the video for Words I Heard, one of the album’s prettiest tracks centered around the Los Angeles composer’s voice, piano, and a kaleidoscopic, fluttering string section and directed by her frequent collaborator Dicky Bahto, below. 

... flapping tongues show no way.

Patty Griffin - River

A: Patty Griffin
S: River

Patty Griffin will issue her tenth studio album in March and the self-titled project comes after a hiatus during which she battled breast cancer. The first song from the Grammy-winning singer-songwriter’s latest is “River,” a slow-paced but intensely moving meditation on a woman’s inner strength. Linger below.

... she doesn’t need a diamond to shine.

Monarchy – Back To The Start

A: Monarchy
S: Back To The Start

Hello internet, I know you've all been dreaming of a dancing Monarchy video for either the past 8 years or maybe all your life, and even though I am an atheist myself I can inform you that your prayers have been answered. So put on your dancing shoes and get into the groove.

... she's the light that can never go out.

Samantha Mumba - Always Come Back To Your Love

A: Samantha Mumba
S: Always Come Back To Your Love

Throwback, y'all! Too soon? Yeah didn't think so. Remember when the Noughties started and we thought music was a total disaster? Some twenty years and a couple of rounds down the drain later we realize the sonorous Armageddon happened in this decade. And it wasn't just worse than we thought, it actually makes us long for songs like this.

... give me a reason to stay.

Foster The People - Worst Nites

A: Foster The People
S: Worst Nites

Foster the People returned in November with a then brand-new song called Worst Nites. The track is similar to the alternative rock band's past songs, with a funky electro-pop sound and is the band's first new song since they released their third studio album Sacred Hearts Club in 2017. Enjoy below.

... all my worst nights are the best times.

Wovoka Gentle - 1,000 Opera Singers Working In Starbucks

A: Wovoka Gentle
S: 1,000 Opera Singers Working In Starbucks

This London trio called Wovoka Gentle has returned with a new single, counting exactly 1,000 Opera Singers Working in Starbucks. The song perfectly showcases the band's composite sound, on which solid songwriting nods in different directions to experimental pop, electronics and a touch of psychedelia - a true cocktail of styles. Think White Russian, or maybe Hemingway. 

... love me more than I love myself.

Choir of Young Believers - Hollow Talk

A: Choir of Young Believers
S: Hollow Talk

Welcome to the first Monday of the year. The only thing good about it is that tomorrow it's over. In case you are still wondering whether it's Monday itself or your job, let me assure you, it is the latter. Here to help you get through it is this choir and the title track of the series The Bridge.

... darkness rises in all you do.

The Avalanches - Because I'm Me

A: The Avalanches
S: Because I'm Me

Guiness said it before, but some things take time. Good things, for example. In the case of The Avalanches, that can be a very long time indeed. With a genre-defining debut album like Since I Left You to their name, it’s difficult to recall many follow-up albums in recent memory that have been quite as highly anticipated as The Avalanches’ Wildflower. Enjoy the wait below.

... honey let's go wrong. 

CYN - I’ll Still Have Me

A: CYN
S: I’ll Still Have Me

Love requires a commitment to meet the challenge of dealing with another human being. That statement is so simple yet so powerful.‘I’ll Still Have Me is the latest single from CYN’s upcoming debut EP. It was released September 21 and went viral on Youtube, amassing over 3 million views in less than three months.

... maybe in another life, everything worked out alright.

Ex:Re - Romance

A: Ex:Re
S: Romance

Elena Tonra, guitarocalist of Daughter, has shared Romance, the first single from her new solo project, Ex:Re. Her self-titled debut album under this new moniker was out late last November. In a statement, Tonra says the record is about the space without that person in it. In every scenario, there’s either the person in memory or the noticeable absence of that person in the present moment.

... I grew up too quick and I still forgive too slow.

The Decemberists - Traveling On

A: The Decemberists
S: Traveling On

Things have been busy for The Decemberists, who stirred some synth-pop into their folk-rock sound with last year’s I’ll Be Your Girl. And there was even more: On December 14th, the Oregon group closed out 2018 with a new EP, Traveling On, made up of outtakes from the I’ll Be Your Girl sessions. Enjoy.

... and I wanna know is when we go on.

Felix ‎– Don't You Want Me (Hooj Mix)

A: Felix ‎
S: Don't You Want Me (Hooj Mix)

Legends never die. Happy 2019 y'all.

... don't you want my love.

Patrick Cowley - Mind Warp

A: Patrick Cowley
S: Mind Warp

Here to prove that uptempo Hi-NRG dance music didn't die in the 80s, nor this or last year, is the title track of Patrick's third and final record. Cowley died shortly after but as proven by this post and many dance floors around the world, still lives on.

... I woke up in the middle of the night.